metamorphosed

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In 1596 he published in succession The Metamorphosis of Ajax, An Anatomie of the Metamorphosed Ajax, and Ulysses upon Ajax, the three forming collectively a very absurd and indecorous work of a Pantagruelistic kind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

The following, from Ben Jonson's "The Metamorphosed Gipsies," supplies further evidence to the same effect:— They should be a Morris dancers by their jingle, but they have no napkins.

From The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England by Sharp, Cecil J.

“Might his Cat be a woman,” he said: Venus changed her: the couple were wed: But a mouse in her sight Metamorphosed her quite, And for bride, a cat found he instead.

From The Baby's Own Aesop by Crane, Walter

Dreadful sight! what, learned Morgan Metamorphosed to a Gorgon!

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

Metamorphosed Gypsies, a Masque, thrice presented to King James, 1621.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus